Thinking out loud. (John Locke Foundation Pres. John Hood)

From: Business North Carolina | Date: June 1, 1996| Author: Noland, Terrance | Copyright information

Want an earful? Just ask the president of the John Locke Foundation if he believes laissez faire gets a fair shake.

John Hood zips down Raleigh's Beltline in his teal-green Saturn, a "Starfleet Academy" sticker stripped across the rear window and Paganini oozing out the back speakers. Late for lunch with a newspaper editor, the president of the John Locke Foundation is trying to explain how his libertarian think tank, once written off as a coven of right-wing reactionaries, ...

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